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fent

noun

fent is a noun meaning “A slit or crack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-N-T and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fent is fents.

What does fent mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKA slit or crack.

  2. 2

    UKA remnant; an odd piece left over.

  3. 3

    slangThe drug fentanyl.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fent?

    Fent has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of fent

    • fents plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is fent?

    Fent appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does fent come from?

    From Old French fente, from Latin findēre (“to cleave”).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).